The Ethics of Nonfiction Rhetoric, Ethos, and Identity

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Synopsis

This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a range of different nonfiction forms – including the personal essay and memoir – and ethical questions that arise in relation to them, such as truth claims, the confessional mode, counter-narratives. Drawing on the ideas of Bakhtin, Nietzsche and Foucault; examples from creative non-fiction writers such as Strayed and Knausgaard; and the founding principles of the originators of the genre, Seneca, Augustine and Montaigne, George Jensen argues that a limited conception of nonfiction leads to a limited view of its ethics. Writing about the truth in an authentic way is more important than ever before – and essential to this is the creation of the ethical subject.

Book details

Edition:
1st ed. 2024
Author:
George H. Jensen
ISBN:
9783031391866
Related ISBNs:
9783031391859
Publisher:
Springer Nature Switzerland
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2023-11-24
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2024
Copyright by:
The Editor 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction, Philosophy